I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as subversive. I just don't necessarily buy what people tell me initially. — Colin Cowherd Copy Share Image
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
We have to be militants for kindness, subversive for sweetness and radicals for tenderness. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
You come out of the gate, you've got something new, you're subversive, nobody's ever done it before. But by your fifth novel… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
...I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
What's most insidious about MTV is that it commodifies precisely those things that young people believe are subversive. In other words, subversity… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I'm not into abuse. It's a given that I'm gentle with you. You're a man, and not young anymore. - Hakuou” — Bohra Naono Copy Share Image
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.” — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence… — Nuno Roque Copy Share Image
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, it was still during Apartheid, so the country was very shielded from the outside artistic world. Anything… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to… — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
I feel like it's a subversive thing [a certain body type to admire] which keeps women preoccupied with something that doesn't matter,… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a… — Mary Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
All art is fundamentally subversive, because it upsets people's perceptions, their notions about society. Therefore, art is dangerous, but good art is… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
![“I don't want to speak for my movies; you could say my movies are just completely silly and dumb, but in the case of 'Idiocracy' and 'Borat,' without a doubt there is a really subversive and sophisticated assault on American culture. It's one thing to mess stuff up and break stuff, but [Borat] is…” quote by Adam McKay](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c9c/adam-mckay-2140_american-culture_i-don-t-want-to-speak-for-my-movies-you_1029915.jpg)
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